[LEAPSECS] leap hour glitch
Steve Allen
sla at ucolick.org
Mon Feb 20 13:00:45 EST 2012
London Ambulance Service lost emergency calls because of the
change from BST to GMT/UTC. Nobody died.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2012/feb/17/999-calls-london-ambulance-service
The system software is by Northrup Grumman.
I would like to see reporting of similar stories about leap seconds.
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